It’s Reagan Country, it’s the John Birch Society, it’s the place Democrats’ dreams go to die.
“Costa Mesa has no apparent center: if there’s a there here, it’s unclear where,” the writer declared, going on to place that city “forty-five minutes to forever south of Los Angeles, depending on traffic,” which admittedly is a nice line, and sometimes even feels true.īut c’mon, people, it’s not so hard to know us! So we started to think: What does the rest of the world think of when it thinks of Orange County, and are those perceptions myth or reality? (Spoiler alert: Mostly myth!) So let’s get this started – to the list!Ī Republican paradise The story goes: Orange County is a bastion of Republicans, overwhelming numbers of them living in conservative castles surrounded by tax collector-proof moats. More recently, the New Yorker magazine posted its own dispatch from our suburbs, or shores, for the rest of the world seems not to know there’s much if anything between the two. (See what we did there? Made all of Jersey suburban from the comfort of our keyboard.) That might be the view from Times Square some 2,800 miles to the east, but from our window we look out to the west over Santa Ana, the 11th-largest city in California, a vibrant, multicultural place more like Brooklyn or Queens than the suburbs of New Jersey. Once, not that many years ago, The New York Times wrote a story about this paper in which it placed its headquarters in “the affluent suburbs south of Los Angeles.”
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